For decades, modern office buildings have been pretty much covered in glass curtain walls. Some are high performance and very expensive, like the super-green LEED Platinum Bank of America Building ...

D.C. developers have spent years churning out homogeneous office buildings ... more texture. The brick covers columns that already existed and the remainder of the facade is glass, which ...

Architects are finding novel ways to use glass to build texture, too. To skin the office building at 2050 M St. NW from developer Tishman Speyer, New York architecture firm REX used nearly 1,000 ...